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Abstract: The Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck the Elder (1630–1702) used a map to demonstrate that the key to Sweden's past lay in classical antiquity. In the opening lines of the Atlantica (1679), Rudbeck explained how plotting a historical map had made him realize, "as if in a dream," that the Swedish place names were remarkably similar to places he had read about in the literature from Greco-Roman antiquity.1 The realization had prompted Rudbeck to reread the ancient authors, and he became convinced that they had not been writing about the Mediterranean world at all, but about Sweden.Through the example of the map, Rudbeck granted his readers insight into the evidence that underpinned the Atlantica, showing that practices ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: My LORD, In soliciting the honour of inscribing this book with your Lordship's name, the Author has no wish to intrude on the intervals of leisure, which the important duties of your high office occasionally admit; . . . Perhaps they may recall to your Lordship's mind, ideas respecting the history and policy of those nations of antiquity, whose learning and arts we are ambitious of imitating: and whose liberty is a perpetual theme of praise, even amongst us, who have employed ages in perfecting a practical system of our own; which, although subject to decay, like all other human institutions, promises to be of much longer duration than any other on record.(Dedication of The Geographical System of Herodotus to ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Scholarship on the philosophical and political writings of once influential eighteenth-century women, including Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), has flourished in recent decades.1 Incorporating the insights gained from this research into our intellectual histories necessitates the revision of certain narratives of the development of Enlightenment political thought that are established on the basis of an exclusively male canon.2 In the spirit of that observation, this article considers how a deeper appreciation of the ethical and political ideas of a handful of women, three of whom worked within the natural law tradition, challenges Staël's representation of Immanuel Kant's "Copernican revolution" in epistemology and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This article seeks to reposition Thomas Arnold (1795–1842) as a major nineteenth-century historian through an analysis of his most important work, the History of Rome (three volumes: 1838, 1840, 1842).1 Arnold's achievements as a historian have long been over-shadowed by his role as headmaster of Rugby School and his reputation as a leading Liberal Anglican theologian. His first biographer, A. P. Stanley, explained, for example, that in compiling his Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold (two volumes, 1844), he had simply omitted the "numerous body of letters . . . connected with [Arnold's] History" because they were "too minute to occupy space wanted for subjects of more general importance."2 This pattern ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In a world abuzz over the Italian Labor Charter, the Soviet Five-Year Plans, and the American New Deal, interwar anarchists did not relinquish their dream of stateless, worker-managed socialism. Rather, they adapted it. While governments pursued state intervention in economies, anarchists debated the merits of economic planning outside of the halls of power.1 Anarchist intellectuals at the forefront of important labor organizations and radical, working-class newspapers in Southern Europe and Latin America worked out their own theories of economic planning during the 1930s to compete with statist solutions to economic turmoil.Diego Abad de Santillán—a prominent Spanish anarchist thinker—helped lead such efforts. ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On two separate occasions, Roman Jakobson was forced to flee Czechoslovakia ahead of a tank invasion: first in 1939 and again, almost thirty years later, in 1968. While neither of these world-historic events should be considered farce, the second flight left the renowned linguist more markedly silent and dumbfounded. Over two months after fleeing Prague in 1968, Jakobson wrote to his colleague Henry Kučera: "It is unnecessary to add that I am still emotionally overwhelmed by the events."1 Jakobson had come to the Bohemian capital for the Sixth International Congress of Slavists, an organization that he had helped found as a broke thirty-three-year-old at the Café Derby there thirty-nine years earlier.2 The Sixth ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Commenting on Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Sigmund Freud observed that in publicizing the religious and apocalyptic visions he had experienced during his psychiatric ordeal, Schreber was acting "much as we are told that the prophets were."1 This extraordinary statement—which found confirmation in Schreber's claim that his only goal in publishing his book was to "further knowledge of truth in a vital field, that of religion"2—draws our attention to the ambivalent role modern psychiatry assigned religious experiences. If the apocalyptic experience was a mental state common to the paranoid and the prophet, the psychology of religion and psychopathology were not simply comparable phenomena but ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: On April 22, 2021, the Cambridge Greek Lexicon (CGL) was published by Cambridge University Press. The university's Faculty of Classics, which had sponsored the publication of the Lexicon, mounted a launch event at which contributions were made by the Lexicon's editor in chief, the distinguished Greek scholar James Diggle, along with some of his Faculty colleagues, who spoke about specific entries. Unusually for a book of this kind, the Lexicon received considerable publicity across a wide range of media—radio, television, newspapers, and magazines—and the initial print run of four thousand was exhausted in five weeks. This burst of publicity was almost unheard of for a dictionary, and especially for a dictionary of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-06T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Morris D. Forkosch PrizeThe Journal of the History of Ideas is pleased to announce the winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Prize ($2,500) for the best first book in intellectual history published in 2021: Ross Carroll, for Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain, published by Princeton University Press.Eligible submissions are limited to the first book published by a single author, and to books published in English. The subject matter of submissions must pertain to one or more of the disciplines associated with intellectual history and the history of ideas broadly conceived: viz., history (including the histories of the various arts and sciences); philosophy (including the philosophy of science, aesthetics ... Read More PubDate: 2023-04-06T00:00:00-05:00
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